"I think it is time for the courts to get back to our original Constitution,
granting freedoms from these suits."

This is exactly what the
courts are there for... to ensure the minority in society has redress when it
feels its rights are being trampled on by the majority. An as was the example
in the case you site... the courts made the decision granting maximum liberty.

In this case, both sides were given the opportunity to make their
arguments, and the courts made an eqyutable decision.... just as the
constitution designed them to do. Providing a venue for debate and defense of
our rights is exactly what the courts were established for..... what would you
rather them do?

Proved a venue for people to sue for a million
dollars because they didn't know their coffee was hot?

Mike your ruse is way too obvious. You don't give a hoot about the courts
you're just upset because once again Jesus is under attack. Mike, it was
federal land. Have you ever seen a lawsuit about removing a religious symbol
from a church on private property? No and you never will. Get over yourself.
Religion is sill King.

Religion is really playing victim these days. Consider that the statue in
question is on public land, and that in the end it was allowed to stay. I have
no problem with that, because, in Whitefish, the statue is up on the hill and
not metaphorically wandering the halls of government. Whitefish is a great ski
town full of Calgarians and delightful pubs like the Bulldog where, to say the
least, one does not feel the pall of religion hanging over everything. The two
can coexist peacefully. And, although I don't believe that some divine
being will suspend all natural laws at my behest, I have invoked such help
anyway when close encounters with snowboarders occur.

According to court records, there have been 20 cases filed in the United States
District Court for the District of Montana in the last seven days. From their
descriptions, none seemed to be about religion. There may be valid objections to
this type of lawsuit, but court congestion is not one of them.

Stop playing the victim for your party's lack of popularity. Look inward at
the obstruction. Stop blaming others.

All of your fears are
completely slippery slope irrational fears. If you really fear all church
buildings will be hidden someday, then please never leave your cave, keep the
tin foil hat on, listen to bro beck, and never come outside.

I find it fascinating that the posters who claim to be traumatized over a Jesus
statue (or highway memorial) in the public realm tend to be the same one who
have no problem forcing the Catholic Church to pay for their birth control -
then they have the audacity to lecture about minority rights, religious freedom
and tolerance when it obvious they are only qualified to provide an illustration
of arrogance, politically correct fundamentalism and hypocrisy

Nice red herring first were did any of the posters claim to be
traumatized by the statues and secondly how do you not see the two issues are
not the same argrument rather then in conflict with one another. People that do
not share your religious views do not wish to have them forced on us. If the
Catholic Church wants to engage in activities outside its eclisatical duties
then it is going to have to flollow the civil laws just like anyone else.

J: How irony? Brazil and the USA? Different traditions. We have a written
constitution. They do not. Ours allows for no State religion. They can have
whatever they choose. Easy, right? If they had a pentangle looking over Rio
would you see irony then?

The court said it can stay, so what's the big whoop? Anytime a
religious group decides to set up a religious monument on public land, that is
cause for concern in my opinion. The court weighed the issues and decided the
harm was negligible. Sounds reasonable.

No where in our Constitution is the permission given for a private concern to
use the public square to advertise their product. The purpose of the
Constitution amendment about religion was for the exact purpose of preventing
the government to favor a religion.

When religion advertises in
the public square, whether it be by clothing, jewelry, religious actions, public
prayers, statues and even buildings, they are violating the Constitution of the
United States for the unfettered freedom of religion of others. Yet we do
allow these things because of tradition.

Today the public square
is taken to be the physical boundary of public land and the air space
immediately above. Private property is likewise so defined. The sky, the view
and that part of the world available to our eyes and ears is not yet allocated.

When technology makes it possible to paint the sky, will parts of
the sky become private property? Even today our view is often blocked by
billboards.

Comparing Brazil's public land to America's is comparing apples to
oranges. Notice, the Brazilian favelas or ghettos which house hundreds of
thousands are all built on public land. Their laws and enforcement is far
different than our own.

I am a Mormon and a Christian and even
I'm getting tired of a few vocal Christians playing the victim card
incessantly. Yes, we get it. You're still upset over the defeat of prop 8.
Now get over it. There are other more important issues to discuss. The
unsustainable military spending, bad economy, and tax cuts for the richies all
need to be addressed.

Last time I checked, there are lots of things I'm not allowed to do on
private land that I am allowed to do on my own property. For some reason, people
who espouse a certain conservative philosophy in this country seem to think that
the Constitution is a Christian document. Guess again.